Defamation case against politician who accused Nadal of doping is postponed

Roselyne Bachelot, France's sports minister from 2007 to 2010, will have to wait a little longer to learn her fate in the defamation trial that Rafael Nadal has brought against her.

In March of 2016 she accused the tennis superstar of doping, pointing to some months in 2012 in which he was inactive due to a knee injury and claiming that a positive result was the real reason for the spell on the sidelines.

In response, Nadal opened legal proceedings and the trial was due to take place this Friday.

However, a build-up of other cases has forced it to be postponed and Nadal's lawyer Patrick Maisonneuve told Efe that he is demanding an exact date be set, with October 6 and October 13 looking like possibilities.

According to Maisonneuve, the matter could be resolved in half a day once it is finally addressed in court.